Guest post by Margrace Bateman, Market Segment Manager, Predictive Analytics Solutions Marketing.
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Creating an agenda is a specialized skill. You don't want it to be so rigid that you feel chained to an inflexible schedule, but you don't want it to be so full of holes that you miss out... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Shawn Parks, Market Manager, Predictive and Business Intelligence Solution Marketing, IBM.
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I want to dispel one of the biggest myths I run into when I tell people I’ve worked on projects with law enforcement agencies for predictive policing. That is the image of an officer,... [Continue Reading]

By Maria Winans, Vice President, IBM Software Solutions Group Marketing.
I’m excited when somebody asks me about our content line up for InterConnect 2013 . Here are a few highlights, from my perspective.
We will showcase the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor , powered by the same technology that enabled... [Continue Reading]

Guest Post by Mary Kern, WW Market Segment Manager, IBM Business Analytics
Have you ever felt like Business Analytics marketing is a lot of fluff? An endless stream of grandiose platitudes promising “business value” that rarely articulates the real impact the technology might have on your job or in your department? A lot of... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Paul Dobbs, Global Lead Consultant, IBM Risk Analytics.
On September 17, the IBM Banking Summit 2013 , will place at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
You will have an opportunity to hear from IBM experts as well as industry influencers such as Brett King, financial advisor and author, and David O’Connell,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Francis McKeon, Banking Industry Director, IBM Business Analytics.
The long-term after-effects of the financial crisis are causing banks to reconsider their business models and strategies and driving renewed focus on the customer.
Replacing the product push or “revenue at all costs” approach with a... [Continue Reading]

Guest Post By Marcus Hearne, Business Unit Executive, IBM Business Analytics
This may not sound too exciting, but I grew up with analytics. My father founded Hearne Scientific Software Pty Ltd , an analytics software development, distribution and services company in Australia. Back then, analytical software had relatively narrow application... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from T. Alan Keahey, PhD
Dr. T. Alan Keahey has played a leading role in the research and development of highly innovative information visualization systems for close to 20 years. His experience spans a wide range of environments including national labs research scientist, research director at a Lucent Bell Labs spin off and... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Basir Syed – Product Marketing Manager IBM Social Media Analytics
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." This statement by Mahatma Gandhi fits the world of social media today. Skeptics have always argued its ROI and advantages, deeming it as a mere marketing tool... [Continue Reading]

In the bank/customer relationship, banks used to hold all the high cards: the power to deny a loan, impose a fee, change account conditions. But in the face of changing consumer behavior and other options for the delivery of financial services, that situation is changing. Banks know they need to become more sensitive to customer needs and... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Murali Prakash, Product Marketing Manager, IBM Business Analytics
IBM has announced a new version of IBM SPSS Statistics software , with features that provide the most advanced analytics techniques to a broader group of business users, statisticians, analysts and researchers, even when they are working from mobile devices.
... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Charith Acharya, Product Marketing Manager, IBM SPSS Statistics.
My first contact with statistics was through the Market Research module in B School. While there is a good chance that a significant majority of the population have never actively used a statistical method, I am sure that a good number of that population,... [Continue Reading]

Eric Siegel, PhD, is the president of Prediction Impact, Inc., executive editor of the Predictive Analytics Times and founder of the Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World conferences. Formerly a professor of computer science at Columbia University, Siegel has published more than 20... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Paulo Sironi, Practice Leader, Wealth Management solutions and Head of Managed Data Services, IBM Risk Analytics
One of the hot button topics coming out of recent G8 talks in the UK has been transparency, as world leaders seek to impose further transparency requirements on tax havens. However, it's not just the world of... [Continue Reading]

Guest blog by Nick Anderson, NA Team Lead, Business Analytics Client Care
Your alarm clock, your email calendar, reminder pop-ups, Facebook telling you it's your wedding anniversary (thank you Mr. Zuckerberg). These are just some of the daily mechanisms that are in place to constantly keep you up to date, on time (and out of the dog... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Michael Meisenheimer, SPM Industry Solutions, IBM Business Analytics
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More than ever, success and failure lies in the quality of the data that finance funnels to the company’s salespeople. Today’s customers are equipped with more information than ever – by some... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Eric McCully, Reporting Architect, Cognos Business Intelligence Development
Visualization of data is a keystone of reporting. Different sets of data require different types of visualizations to provide maximum insight. Fixed libraries of visualization types for use in reporting can be very limiting to a report author trying... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Martin Botha, Head, Portfolio Construction & Risk Management solution, Risk Analytics
The financial crisis has redefined the asset management landscape. Like the eruption of Vesuvius back in AD 79, which erased the ancient Roman city of Pompeii off the map, the financial crisis wiped out the old investment world order,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Frank van Ham, Master Inventor, Information Visualization and Visual Interaction Expert
What’s the right visualization for your data? That depends. What kind of data are you using, what type of analysis are you carrying out and what do you plan to do with it? Answering those questions and choosing an appropriate... [Continue Reading]

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